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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-25

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-25

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-25

A RTIST MATERIAL.-We keep everything
- that can possibly be desired or sought foP
by either amateurs or professionals Our trade
in this line is constantly increasing, and thu
quality of goods we offer is the best. Besides all
necessities for painting, our stock embraces
every needed article for Repousse work. Wax
and Paper Flowers, and many novelties in
ration.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-25

STATIONERY.-Our stock embraces every
- thing used in home or school use, and conn
prises all grades, prices and styles of Psners
Envelopes, Cards Menu Cards, Dinner Carts
Programmes, Orders of Dance Box PaperS'
Wedding Cabinets, Lead Pencils of all Kinds'
Steel Pens, Penholders, Inks, Mucilage, Memo.
randum Books, Pads, Tissue Papers, PaperNan
kins, Paper Mats, Sealing Wax, etc
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-25

ENNGRAVING.-We furnish the best grade a.
II work. use only perfect stock, and do ali
kind of society work, which embraces WeddIns
Invitations. Calling Cards, At Home Cards
Stamping from Die, both bronze and iluminat
ed work speciality. All work guaranteed equal
to the best, and our prices are much lower than
those charged by respectable Eastern firms for
same class of work
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

We have remarked before that
what has been said on the future of
Lamar has always been founded On
assurances reasonable to believe, so
far, i'll the history of the town, we
have not been deceived in the state
ments made by those who started
out to build the town, aud therefore
have only published facts and not
uncertainties for the sake of adver-
tising. There is no money in boom.
ing paper schemes, and for that re;ts-
on our people do not encourage em
migration by advertising the town
to be a certain railroad center or any
thing else we have no assurance of
There is enough, we have every
reason to believe will be done for the
town to make it the best town in
Eastern Colorado without resorting
to advertising uncertainties. Ii il -
noticeable fact that the people of
Lamar do their boaSting about what
they have got and not what they are
to get, aud in connection with This
statement we Will say with all the
blow of railroads by towns along the
line of the road. Lamar has kept
quiet, but attending strictly to bu-i-
ness, to bear us out in this statement
unbeknown to even many of our
citizens. party of railroad en
gineers dropped in here and have all
ready surveyed proposed line, the
stakes being driven as far south as
Villas. We do not know that this
road will ever be built, but if it is,
and we believe it will be, work on
the grade will be begun before it is
generally known the survey really
ment business We hear of many
plans for the advancement of Lamar,
plans that some towns would herald
TO the world, as there is possibility
OF there peing carrieu out, Dut IL Us
not the working of our town com
pany to advertise their business.
They first perfect their plans, and if
successful, proceed with the work,
by that means they never raise false
hopes, have no explanations TO make
or excuses TO offer. Our town speaks
for itself, come and see it,
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

The religious interests of the COM
munity are being looked after nov
carefully by both the Methodist and
Christisn Churches. Both are ar
ranging TO build houses of worship
at an early day, while both, we un-
derstand have good following of
members aud friends in the commu-
nIty. From Mr.. Bcardsley, Pastor
of the Methodist Church, we learn
that eleven united with that church
on last Sunday and that five more
have signitied their wish to deposit
their letters as soon as they can get
TO the service, while several other
families connected with that church
are in the town and vicinity and can
be counted on to increase the size
and working force of the society in
the near future. AT the business
meeting held on Sunday the follow
ing officers were elected:
Trustees of Church Property, Jesse
Wright, H. A. Billov, F. NJ. Noble,
Mrs. Emma Godding, Mrs. w. r.
Davis, Mrs. A. +. Parmenter and
Mrs. p. ID. Ghadeayne.
Stewards: Mrs. Laura Sanders,
Mrs. d. G. Stokes, Miss Mary Weil-T
w w. Louden and Edwin Bucks.
Recording Steward and Treasurer,
Mrs. Laura Sanders.
1t was also arranged for the trus-
tees TO effect an early organization
of the board, select plans and pro-
reed with the erection of the House
of Worship. From the amount Of
subscription already secured and
lthat which it is certain can still be
mad, it was conceded that good
creditable building could and should
be erected
Bent County register., 1887-02-19
OLD FRIENDS.
K. B. GRAY,
Adj't. Gen'l,

There are advertisements in our ex-
changes that We get awful tired of
seeing and vow often that We will
never look at them again, but each
week as We take up the papers there
staring us in the face is the same ad.
We do not know the advertiser but
his ad we do know and from week
to week, gradually get better ac-
quain,ed with him, we never have
been in his town, but occasionally
see mention of him and involeutar.
lily turn to his ad and see how he l.
prospering, until our acquaintance
becomes general with the patrons of
our exchanges. Occasionally We
meet a man whose n, has stared u
out of contidenc for several year,
and we always feel like rushing ~
and saying how,ly old fellow, how
are you getting along, he is an old
friend, we have seen his al time ard
again and know what business b,
was in So long that he has become
of interest to u~. Advertisement,
are curious spokesmen, now take one
Of railroad. a thousand miles away
1t advertises to be the shortest and
quickest route to a given point. w
have never seen the road, never ex-
pect too; do not caro- whether the,
are sixteen hours late day, bu'
there il the ad TO be seen every time
the paper is opened, aud occa~iouall,
We have irresistible desire TO sc,
if that road is still the shortest roui.
and making the quickest time, s..
read the ad, we know by heart. Thei
let an old advertiser drop out, and
the reader begins to turn the papei
over aud over, something is wrong,
he does not care about the missing
ad, but there is a wonder if that mat
has failed, died or moved away.
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

They are making a good deal of
newspaper noise over the sight of
live grasshoppers in Erie county,
Pennsylvania, about the first of Feb
ruary. That is nothing, grasshop-
pers were hopping about on the town
site of Lamar in January, and flies
have been quite numerous here ever
since the first day of February.
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

/The question of how to heat pas.
'sengcr cars, otherwise than with a
common heating stove is being $.
fully discussed by the travelling pub.
lie, railroad managers, ani the news
papers, that the result will be. the
stove will have to go. This question
might die out as many other needed
reforms do, il it was not that abour
the time the public begin to turn
their thoughts to other matters, there
is railroad wreck in which the
tain burhs up and many of the pas.
sengers cremated
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

Congress means to put the United
States in fighting trim, or take step
in that direction at any rate. The
Senate bill appropriaiing tweniy-one
million dollars for ordinance has
passed the Senate and will probabl,
not be cut down by the house
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

The expense of the session of our
present Legislature will be, says one
who has been figuring, ninety-six
thousand, five hundred and tifty-nine
dollars and ninety cents. This
amount, says the Denver Republican
will be fifty Thousand dollars less
than the expense of the last Legi-la-
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

All old soldiers entitled to pen
>ions under the new allowance to
grant pensions to the Mexican War
veterans can obtain all the instruc-
lions and blanks they need, free, by
applying for them to the commission
err of pensions at Washington.
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

Word comes from Kit Carson that
,the boom has reached there A month
ago they had but one store, now
they have Two or three general sup
ply stores, saloons and other eviden-
ces of a town, settlers are going in
and taking up the government land.
AT one time Carson had five or six
hundred inhabitants and cross road
running to La Junta.
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

Mrs. c. K. Kinuarid, an accom-.
plished cutter and dress maker can
be found at Mrs. L. Hess dry goods
and notion store, prepared 10 do all
work in that line. Mrs. Hess has a
full and complete line of ladies dress
goods and dress making material.
L3Itf
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

Apples are high and good ones
hard to get The absence of fruit
is one of the great causes of regret
among the people from the east, in
this country. This can be reinedied
IN time, and the way to do it, is to
loose no time in setting out fruit
trees
Bent County register., 1887-02-19
THE DEPENDENT PENSION
BILL.

MADISON, Wis, Feb. 1.-THE fol
lowing was issued to day:
MADISON, Wis, February IA
Circular No. Sin view of the re-
cent veto of the dependent pension
bill, and of the very great impor-
tance of that measure to many o. our
disabled comrades who need and are
justly entitled to help, it is recon-
mended that posts and comrades
every where, by resolutions and let
tiers, Immediately inform the mem
bers of Congress, who are entitled
to and will gladly receive their ex-
pressions OF opinion, of their approx
al of the principles involved in the
vetoed bill Comrades are requested
to move at once, without waiting for
printed circular. By command oi
LucIUs FAIRCHILD,
K. Il. GRAY, Commander
Adj't. Gen1.
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

Railroad contractors are using
burro's to carry supplies and tools to
their camps over the Mountains. A
car load was bought fer that purpose
a, La Veta last week
Bent County register., 1887-02-19
Stage Line.

W. ii. Harris stage leaves Lamar
Tuesdays and Fridays, at eight
o'clock in the morning, for Farming
ton, Springfield and Boston. He will
run daily line in short time. 33tf
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

Governor Ross and Mr.. Sanches,
member of the New Mexico Legisla
iurc, had a hand to hand argument
one day last week. They were sep
parated with difficulty by friends.
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

The Supreme court of Colorado
have decided that women are moi
eligible TO appointment as Notrries'
public, Notaries must he electors.
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

By a recent order of the Post OF
flee Department. postal notes are now
drawn upon 'any money order office, >
and not upon any specified office ns
heretofore.
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

The people of this section of coun-
try are happy TO say that the con
fer, es on the bill to repeal the pre-
emption laws could not agree.
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

Boys OF the craft, prepare to count
ties, says the Dodge City Globe.
Mr.. Frost must have had the Inter
state bill in mind.
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

Akron wants land office, they
are nice thing to have in town,
and Akron is not to blame for such
ambitions.
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

a new town is to be laid out forty
miles south west of Villas. New
towns are all the rage in this part of
the country.
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

Bishop Green, of the episcopal
church, died in Tennessee last Sun
day.
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

Prairie fires are running over
western Kansas, care should be taken
not to let them get start on our
rannes
Bent County register., 1887-02-19
For Sale.

A $4,000 well anger, nearly new.
great bargain. BENT d ZIMMERMAN
l-33u Lamar, Colo
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

Indication of Spring-The base
oall clubs are making announcements
for the season.
Bent County register., 1887-02-19

The Interstate commerce bill will
go into effect April 5th.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-03
LICK TELESCOPE
The Delicate Grinding Required for tho
Great Lens of the Instrument.

The Delicate Grinding Required for the
Great Lens of the Instrument.
There is something almost romantic
in the design and construction of the
monster Lick telescope. Being the
greatest work ever undertaken, present.
ing difficulties that had never before
been encountered; inviting and suffer-
ing drawbacks and disasters that SEEM
ed to be sufficient to stagger the most
persistant and painstaking skill; watch
ed from day to day by whole world
of anxious observers; hoyered over and
caressed by the united wisdom of a gen.
eration-the lens has come into the
world with its great cyclopean eve
ready to pierce the mysteries of the
heavens. Captain Thomas Fraser,
superintendent of the observatory,
furnishes some hitherto unpublished
and highly interesting informa-
ton concerning the grinding of
the crown-glass lens, and the plan
adopted for transporting it from Cam
bridgeport, Mass, to San Jose. On the
subject of the grinding, he says that
the closest measurement at command
was the 10, part of an inch; but
on grinding the great lens it was dis
covered that even this infinitesimal
fraction was two large. A still finer
measurement was required in reducing
the lens in numberless places to u
thickness Gtself unequaD that would
exactly concentrate parallel rays of
light filling circle three feet in dame
ter to point little larger than pin.
In order to reduce the fine measure
ment already at command, the fol-
lowing ingenious arrangement was en-
ployed by Alvin Clark & Sons, makers
of the lens: A gas jet was placed before
mirror. which sent the RAYS of light
through the telescope to the great lens,
thus magnifying the rays The magni-
fled light, passing through the great
lens was still further immensely
magnifed, and after having passed
through this lens, it was observed
through second telescope and thus
further magnified. In this way the
least failure of the great lens to con-
centrated perfectly was detected, and
there was also determined the amount
of glass in it, at any given point, that
had to be ground off in order to secure
perfect focus. Thus a measurement
of the 1000, ,00Oth part of an inch was
secured. 1t took very little grinding to
remove so small a thickness of glas;
from q given point, a gentle rubbing
with the thumb being sufficient. rs the
lass IS softer than common window
giass.-BQstQH transcript.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-03
WINDS AND WAVES.
They Arc Slowly But Surely Washing
Away Historic Cape Cod.

Away Historic cape Cod
The winds and waves are slowly but
surely working changes in the shore
line of the Cape. Scientists claim that
Cape Cod from the highlands of Truro
to the end of Long Point, was washed
up from the sea. A look along the
shores reveals many changes during
the past decade. Pawet harbor. at
Truro, which in old times was busy
place, accommodating large fleet of
fishing vessels, has so filled up that it
is almost impossible to enter with a
five-ton fishing smack. The low-water
mark is gradually moving down from
the bank along the entire shore. The
little shoal off the end of Long Point,
at the entrance to Provincetown har-
Dor, over which twenty years ago were
fifteen feet of water at low tide, has
gained in height until now eight OF
nine feet is the average low water. In
the cove, at the west end of the har-
Dor, the low-water mark has moved
about eight hundred feet farther from
the shore during the past fifteen years,
caused mainly by the dry sand blowing
off the hills and at low tide filling in
the flats. At a point short distance
from Wood End Light the tide has
gradually cut in, until now, at ex-
treme highest tides, only about twenty
feet of dry land remain between the
waters of the bay and harbor. The
northerly and easterly gales do the
most damage, and are aided by the
tides. The sands that wash away from
the banks are spread out, increasing
the dangerous bars, some of which ex-
tend half a mile from the shore, caus-
ing so many wrecks and making Cape
Cod one of the most dangerous points
in the world. The famous Peaked Hill
Bars, three miles east of the Race, in
crease more rapidly than any other
point. While the sands are being
washed seaward, the wind is also
sweeping them landward in large guam
titles, covering the bushes and trees.
1t is estimated that the sand hills have
moved downward thrce-quarters of a
mile in the past dozen years. AT
Highland Light the high cliffs are
gradually washing away. The aver
age yearly waste is nearly two feet,
and it is only question of time when
ali the lighthouse buildings will have
to be moved inland. The buildings
have been rebuilt twice since the light
was first established, ninety-seven
wears ago and the site of the first
lighthouse has entirely disappeared.
At point just north OF the light more
than thirty feet of the surface have
washed into the sea during the past
two years. This gradual washing away
is continued along the coast to Chat
ham. At Nausett Lights the bank is
disappearing, if any thing, more rapid
ly than at any other point. Around
Chatham the lew, sandy beaches are
yearly disappearing beneath the waves,
and Chatham harbor is nearly spoiled
by the sea breaking through. Boston
1yanScript.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-03
RUSSIAN USURERS.
How They Cypress the Poor, Struggling
and Dependent Peasantry.


How They Cypress the Poor, Struggling
and Dcspondent Peasantry.
Russia is fast verging toward land
lordism in its most pronounced form,
and the people are being divorced
wholesale from the soil which their
fathers titled and by which alone them
selves can live In another generation.
at the present rate of progress (or
degredation), there will be on one side
an agricultural proletariat of sixty or
seventy millions, on the other "a class
of kouldkS and 'mir-eaters, holding
all the land and virtually owning those
by whom it is cultivated. The present
system is based on the bondage of the
peasants. Koaldks (usurers) and land
lords lend their money, taking as Sc
curity the hypothecation of the borrow
er's future labor, and once in debt tho
Russian peasant is never free. He be-
comes the bond-slave of his creditor,
who exacts his pound of flesh with Shy
lock ferocity.
But the debtor, when his creditor is
landlord, has simple yet effective way
of avenging himself. He works as little
and Intellectually as he knows how. The
free laborer does twice as much and
does it great deal better, and for this
evil there is no remedy except one that
is worse than the disease it is meant to
cure-a well-paid overseer for every
bondageman. For the peasant who is
working off debt does not fear dis
missal--wants it in fact, and the gov
ernment allows no one TO use the rod
but itself. The bouldk, or local usurer,
is in better position than the big land
lord. A peasant himself, he works in
the fields with his bondsmen, and can
sea that they work. Being, more
over, man of Importance in
the village. he is naturally more
feared and better served than the abb
sentee owner. 1t is obvious that under
these conditions agricultural progress
and scientific farming are quite out OF
the question. Bondage labor is cheaper
than any other. cheaper even than
machinery. Besides, who would in
! vest money in labor-saving machines
when he can lend it out at two or three
hundred per cent. per annum. So it
comes to pass that land owners and
usurers grow rich. cereals are exported
and the peasants die. Hardly year
passes that parts of Russia are not de-
vastated by local famines. Instances
of aathropopo hagy often occur. the
wretehed peasants being reduced TO
such straits that in their desperation
they eat human fiesh-literally prey on
each other,-Cor. San FraHciscs
Chroaicle.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-03
SAVANNAH TENNESSEE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1887

hand you will then go to the optician
with all the certainty that can be had
of finding the best treatment that your
eyes may require.
l shall not attempt, after laying
down this precept to describe all the
kinds of different eyes, and the kinds of
glasses that they require. But for
presbyopic or far-sighted persons, and
for myopic or near-sighted, will give
the excellent summary that DR.. w. S.
bennett, of New York, has prepared for
the guidance of opticians who are called
upon to prescribe glasses without the
guidance of an oculist. The rules are
as follows:
a. Make all persons see distant OBJ
jects as well as possible; near-sighted
persons with the weakest, far-sighted
persons with strongest glasses.
(2.) Allow near-sighted persons to
use still weaker glasses, or none at all,
for near vision.
(3.) Allow far-sighted persons to use
still stronger glasses for near vision,
and no glasses at all for distance, il
they desire it.
And refer to the oculist III all who
can not see as well as they ought; ri
all who are very near-sighted; [3] all
who have become near-sighted recent
ly; and [4] all who are not satisfied
with their glasses. Titus N. Coa'a,
in Chdatauquan.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-03
GAllEY-SLAVES,
Their Deplorable Lot In the Early Days
of the Eighteenth Century.

Their Deplorabie Lot In the Early Days
of the Eighteenth Century.
The life of the French galley-slaves
of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries has been thus described by
Admiral de la Graviere: They place
seven men on each bench; that Is to
say, in space ten feet long by four
feet wide. They are SO packed away
that you can see nothing from stern
10 bow but the heads of the sailors.
The captain and the officers are not
much better of. When the seas over
take the galleys, when the north wind
howls along the coast, or when the
sirocco dampens the passengers with
its deadly moisture, all these make the
galley perfect hell. The lamentation
of the ships company, the shrieks of
the sailors, the horrible howling of the
convicts, the groaning of the timbers,
mixed with the clanking of the chains
and the natural noises of the storm,
produce an effect which will terrify the
bravest of men. Even the calm has its
Inconvenience. ut holliu sihOtio lic
so powerful that you can not with
stand them, despite the fact that you
Use tobacco in some shape from morn
ing till night
"Condemned in 1701 to serve in the
galleys of France on account of being
Protestant Jean Martele de Bugerac
died in l777 at Galenburg, on the
Gueldre, at the age of ninety-iive. He
seems to have had Ito use common
expression, though quite in place here)
his soul devoted to his body All the
convicts,' he says, ARE chained six to
bench; these benches are four feet
apart, and covered with a bag stuffed
with wool, on which is thrown sheep
skin. The overseer, who is the Iuaster
of the slaves, remains aft, near the
captain, to receive his orders. There
are two ub-overseers-one amidships;
the other on the bow. Each of them is
armed with whip, which he exercises
on the naked bodies of the crew. When
the captain orders the boat off, the
overseer gives signal from a silver
whistle which hangs from his neck.
This is repeated by the two
others, and at once the slaves
strike the water. One would say the
| fifty oars were but one. Imagine six
men chained to a bench, naked as they
were born, one foot on the foot-rest.
the other braced against the seat in
front, holding in their hands an oar of
enormous weight. stretching their
bodies out and extending their arms
forward into the backs of those before
them, who have the same attitude.
The oar thus advanced, they raise the
end they hold in their hands, so that
the other end shall plunge into the sea.
That done. they throw themselves back
and fall on their seats, which bend in
receiving them. Sometimes the slave
rows ten, twelve, even twenty. hours
at a time, without the slightest relaxa-
ton. The overseer. or some one else,
on such occasions, puts into the mouth
of the unfortunate rover morsel OF
bread steeped with wine to prevent
his fainting. If, by chance, one falls
over (Which often happens), heis beat
en- until he is given up for dead. and
then he is thrown overheard without
ceremony. ."-InterIor.